Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the untar_block function in win32/untar.c in Pidgin before 2.10.10 on Windows allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a drive name in a tar archive of a smiley theme.
References
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1376 vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1397 vendor-advisory
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/68b8eb10977f